Running city hall instead of fighting it

Jack Cox Jr., whose family is no stranger to fighting city hall, plans to run for mayor as an independent candidate.

Cox was at the special City Council meeting on moving city hall to the Dauchy Building on River Street from its present home at the old Verizon Building at 1776 Sixth Ave.

In speaking to the City Council, Cox admitted that he’s tussled with many people in the city of Troy. One such event was with former DPW Commissioner Bob Mirch, who blockaded Cox’s auto business on Fifth Avenue in Lansingburgh. Cox won a $20,000 settlement from the city over that incident.

In the 2007 election, restaurant and bar owner Elda Abate ran unsuccessfully as the Troy People’s Party candidate for mayor against Republican Mayor Harry Tutunjian and Democrat Jim Conroy, a former deputy mayor. Tutunjian won. Abate had her own legal problems with the city.

Cox doesn’t think the Dauchy Building is a good city hall site. He’d rather move it uptown.

Cox will have to circulate petitions later this summer to face off against City Council President Clement Campana, the Democrats’ mayoral candidate, and Republican candidate Carmella Mantello, who headed the NYS Canal Corp. before former Schenectady mayor Brian Stratton was named to the post earlier this year.

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When the good taxpayers of Troy (all 6 of them) realize that economic development means CORPORATE WELFARE and coruption ALA Joe Bruno then maybe they will cry out and put a stop to the stealing of taxpayers’ funds that the Republicans in this county love to use.

That Big wheel just keeps going around & around.
Its time to take our City back from people who just do every thing thay can to stay in power.
They forget that We The People put them there to do a job for US not steel every thing they can get there grubby little hands on.